A DIRECTOR from Winchmore Hill has been short-listed in a London film competition for his short movie featuring two Hollywood stars.

Tom Ludlam, 24, is in the final of Film London’s Best of Boroughs Awards, in which 11 films battle for the public vote, each representing a different London borough.

His eleven-minute film, Rule Number Three, stars About A Boy and X-Men:First Class actor Nicholas Hoult and 28 Weeks Later actress Imogen Poots as a couple playing a pub game of Scrabble that takes a sinister turn.

He said: “I am delighted to have been chosen to represent Enfield, and I hope the people enjoy my film and come out in force to vote.

“I was lucky enough to find an old Scrabble box lying up in my loft, and so I cleared it out and put in my script and application for the judges to read.

“Thankfully it made enough of an impression for them to call me the next day.”

The former Enfield Grammar School pupil has spent the past two-and-a-half years in Hollywood learning his trade on major films and TV series, where he met the cast of his short film.

He added: “I was lucky enough to work with Nick on a day-to-day basis on X-Men, and I just thought why not ask him? So I passed him a copy of the script, and once he had read it, he agreed almost instantly. It was quite surreal.”

The project — Mr Ludlam’s first as a director — received funding from the North London Film Partnership and Enfield and Haringey Councils.

Public voting for the competition started on Monday and finishes on August 31, before the ceremony at BAFTA headquarters in Piccadilly on September 7.

To watch the 11-minute film and vote, click here.